Faina Melnik Veleva
Faina Melnik Veleva

Faina Hryhorivna Velieva-Melnyk (Ukrainian: Фаїна Григорівна Мельник, Russian: Фаина Григорьевна Велева-Мельник Faina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik; born July 9, 1945, in Bakota, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) was an Ukraininan discus thrower of Jewish descent, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event.





A member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Melnyk is currently a teacher in Moscow